Jill: /
What Occupy represents hasn't been fixed and there is not a hope, not even a
germ of a plan being proposed by Republicans or Democrats is going to fix this.
All they talk about is restoring us to that phony economy of high finance by
giving away more tax breaks and more deregulation as if Wall Street wasn't
deregulated enough or the climate isn't deregulated enough. It's like, "What
are they thinking?"

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Rob: And
they appoint more and more of the same banksters to fix the problem that was
created by banksters. / I just want to mention one thing though.

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Jill: /
Exactly.

Rob: Your
website is JillStein.org.

Jill: That's
right.

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Rob: That's
JillStein, S-t-e-i-n dot o-r-g and that's where people can see the whole
description of the Green New Deal, because you've kind of gone over a lot of
your issues and they sound like just the kind of positions that my listeners
and the readers at OpEdNews like, so I'm not going to go too much further into
that area with you / unless there's anything in particular that you want to
cover.

Jill: /
Well, there's one thing I should say which is just that the core of the Green
New Deal is actually creating jobs and for the cost of the President's first
Stimulus Package, which made a small dent but really wasn't a solution. It was
not a solution of the magnitude that we need. This would really create the
solution that we need for the same amount of money but it would work, because
instead of just giving it away to corporations, which was the majority of that
Stimulus Package. It was basically tax breaks. That doesn't create jobs.
Instead we would do direct job creation like they did during the New Deal. It
actually worked. It substantially moved us forward out of the Great Depression.
This would put resources and money--

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media. He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.